I had coffee with a clever marketing and sales consultant recently and one of the topics we discussed was the impact of location on a group’s ability to innovate. At the time we spoke about getting people to think in new ways by getting people to think in new places. That is to say that if you always meet in the same places to try and be creative as a team, don’t you ultimately get the same types of thinking? Continue reading
The counterculture of the 60s was a time of divided opinions, environmentalism, legendary music, roads less travelled, and civil rights. The push for change was led by catalysts ranging from John Lennon to John F. Kennedy, from Muhammad Ali to Martin Luther King Jr., and others who were not afraid to go in a different direction. Even Steve Jobs said that he modeled his business in the manner of the Beatles. Continue reading
America’s Innovation economy is 6,000,000 jobs strong. That is one proof-point that we, TechNet, a national bi-partisan network of CEOs that promotes growth of technology industries (of which I am a member), have been personally giving to Congress and the Administration for a decade. This week, when we gathered for the Tenth Annual TechNet day in DC, we went deeper than the general fact that innovation is driving the next generation of job growth. Yes, beyond “Shovel Ready” and “Green Tech.”, we added to the lexicon of job-generating terminology “the app economy.” Continue reading
Social business, and its companion/forebear, Enterprise 2.0, have successfully penetrated the halls of organizations around the world. The adoption is far from complete, and the jobs-to-be-done by social business are evolving. But the trend lines point to continued expansion of social business.
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Okay, so I’m writing to you from the Thai Airways lounge at Bangkok’s majestic new airport. I can report that this teeming city of 13 million has dug out from the recent floods, and is getting on with life. The economy, according to the cabbies and locals I talked with, is still suffering and there is even talk of another coup. Continue reading
Innovation done well is exploitation. It makes full use of breakthroughs, deriving benefits that include enhanced productivity, improved efficiencies, greater profits, increased market share, and above all exceptional growth in value… and it happens on purpose.
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